1547 Episodes

  1. 546: Ouroboros (Or: A Brief Dip Into the Relationship I Have with My Mother)

    Published: 11/16/2021

  2. 545: Response, Years Later, to Two Male Poets I Overheard Discussing How Sick They Were of Women's Poems about the Body

    Published: 11/15/2021

  3. 544: Elegy for Estrogen

    Published: 11/12/2021

  4. 543: The Hummingbird

    Published: 11/11/2021

  5. 542: In Gratitude

    Published: 11/10/2021

  6. 541: Little Grey Dreams

    Published: 11/9/2021

  7. 540: far away from home I am hungry

    Published: 11/8/2021

  8. 539: Full Moon

    Published: 11/5/2021

  9. 538: Declassified

    Published: 11/4/2021

  10. 537: Today I'm Not Thinking About Gender

    Published: 11/3/2021

  11. 536: Hoodie

    Published: 11/2/2021

  12. 535: This Close

    Published: 11/1/2021

  13. 534: The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings.

    Published: 10/29/2021

  14. 533: Offering

    Published: 10/28/2021

  15. 532: The Vine

    Published: 10/27/2021

  16. 531: anti-immigration

    Published: 10/26/2021

  17. 530: Cattails

    Published: 10/25/2021

  18. 529: [Somewhere In Los Angeles] This Poem Is Needed

    Published: 10/22/2021

  19. 528: First

    Published: 10/21/2021

  20. 527: Rabbits and Fire

    Published: 10/20/2021

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